◆A thriving career transition job market
According to the DODA Report on Competition in the Career Transition Job Market published by Intelligence, Ltd., the number of openings in the job market in February 2016 stood at 104.9% when compared to the previous month and 145.3% when compared to February one year ago. For 15 months running, figures have hit their highest points since the survey was launched in January 2008.
The number of people seeking to change jobs increased by 6.5% compared to the previous month and 56.8% compared to the same month one year ago, and has been hitting record highs for 6 consecutive months, demonstrating a career transition market that continues to thrive. With human resources so highly fluid, securing employees has become a major problem for companies.
◆Reasons for resigning: genuine reasons and reasons stated to the company
When changing jobs, it goes without say that one must first quit one’s current job. While the reasons stated by employees for resigning may serve to highlight a particular company’s problematic areas, it is by no means the case that every employee provides genuine reasons for quitting when handing in his or her resignation.
Genuine and Stated Reasons for Resigning, a questionnaire-based survey (with 1,515 respondents) conducted by en Japan inc., reveals that roughly 50% of employees do not inform their employers of the genuine reason for their resignation.
The following is a list of reasons stated to the company together with genuine reasons for resignations.
Reasons for resignation stated to the company:
(1) Marriage, family circumstances (23%)
(2) Health problems (18%)
(3) Job content (14%)
Genuine reasons:
(1) Human relations (25%)
(2) Evaluation and personnel systems (12%)
(3) Corporate culture and climate, salary, actual working hours (11% each)
◆Considering the situation from the point of view of employees genuine reasons
This survey reveals that the reasons employees give for resigning are oftentimes different to their genuine reasons for wanting to do so.
As can be imagined from what have been listed as the genuine reasons for resignations, companies with a large number of staff resignations come to be viewed as having a relatively bad atmosphere or as having many staff who are discontented with their treatment. For these reasons, such companies are also avoided by job-seekers.
Measures must be taken to remedy the situation while working to identify genuine and stated reasons for resignations.
